Prometheus - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Prometheus or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Prometheus

[jeffrey]

Principal photography took 82 days and involved the use of eight sound stages at Pinewood Studios outside London. Two weeks of filming took place in Iceland and three months of further interior shooting occurred in Alicante, Spain.

[melinda]

The POV Cams from Aliens re-appear. And, like that movie, the team disarms themselves with disastrous results.

[steve]

Idris Elba has been called a master of American accents. His Stringer Bell from The Wire was so specific, some refused to believe he was actually a Brit. In this movie, however, his southern accent is very non-specific with a little bit of Texas, Tennessee, and possibly Alabama. This is either because of the Smokey and the Bandit Effect, where Jackie Gleason did the Dick VanDyke equivalent of a southern accent, or it may just be that in the future, the south melds into one amorphous region.

[morris]

Before Fifield's attack, the Prometheus crew find him folded up on the ground outside the ship, at which point he 'unfolds' and begins his rampage. This scene may be a reference to a deleted scene from Alien, in which Ripley was to encounter a strange box-like shape in one of the corridors aboard the Nostromo, only for it to unfold and reveal itself to be the Alien.

[richard]

Numerous white Stelton vacuum jugs appear in various interior shots of the Prometheus ship, including the ship's lab and Shaw's bedroom.

[gabriel]

The scene where Vickers refuses to allow the infected crew member on board is almost exactly like the scene in Alien (1979), of which this is a prequel, where Ripley refuses to allow the crew to bring the infected Kane on-board. Including some of the same dialogue.

[addison]

As Elizabeth dictates her notes she wonders if the Engineers had experienced some sort of outbreak. A moment later, Charlie walks in. When presenting her the rose, he stands upright within the projected image of the dead Engineer while holding the rose to his chin, which makes it look as though he's in a coffin. By now, of course, several hours have passed since David infected him with the alien seed.

[sophie]

To prepare for his role as the android David, Michael Fassbender watched Blade Runner (1982) (another Ridley Scott film), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), The Servant (1963) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (mentioned by Peter Weyland). Fassbender also studied Olympic diver Greg Louganis, drawing inspiration from Louganis's physicality.

[brent]

In the sequence where a holographic Peter Weyland addresses the crew of the Prometheus, the musical underscore heard quotes the original theme to Alien (1979) written by Jerry Goldsmith but never used in the 1979 film.

[manuel]

As mentioned in the film, the original Prometheus was a character from Greek mythology. He was a Titan (an immortal older god), who gave the gift of gods fire to human beings. Prometheus was punished for this by being bound to a rock on Kaukasus, where each day an eagle, the emblem of Zeus, was sent to feed on his liver, only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day. In some stories, Prometheus is freed at last by the hero Heracles (Hercules) as one of his Twelve Tasks. Among the ancient Greeks, Prometheus was venerated as a deity. Prometheus may derive from the Greek for "forethinker", or the Proto-Indo-European for "thief", Prometheus also tricked the gods, which is of relevance to this film.

[steve]

The interior of the ship was built across a two level structure, fronted by a large, faceted, wrap around windscreen; this element of the design, along with the "floating" crew positions that projected into this windshield, were recycled from an unused original design for the Nostromo's bridge in Alien. Vickers' quarters were designed to represent her high status on the ship, being furnished with modern and futuristic items including Swarovski chandeliers and a Fazioli piano. The ship's garage was built on the backlot of Pinewood Studios in England.

[ethel]

Noomi Rapace, who plays British character Shaw, worked on-set with a dialect coach, to help her achieve the closest accent she could manage. Ironically Idris Elba, who plays Janek, is actually British but plays Janek with a Southern United States accent.

[kylie]

During the scene in which the Hammerpede erupts from Millburn's corpse, Ridley Scott did not inform Kate Dickie about what was to occur in the scene, and thus her screaming reaction was real. This trick for authenticity went one step further than what Scott did during the filming of the infamous chestburster scene from Alien (1979), where the cast knew that something would come out of the body, but not that they would be sprayed in blood.

[michele]

Charlize Theron and Patrick Wilson previously appeared in Young Adult (2011). However, they don't share any scenes in this film.

[chris]

The briefing scene aboard the Prometheus resembles the briefing from Aliens, including most of the crew not having been told about the purpose of the mission before they went into hypersleep. However, the circumstances of this movie make this much less plausible.

[javier]

This is not Ian Whyte's (who plays the Last Engineer) only attachment to the Alien (1979) films. Whyte also played the Predators in Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007).

[fred]

Charlize Theron found herself struggling during her action scenes, due to her smoking habit, particularly the segments that required her to run through sand in boots weighing thirty pounds (fourteen kilograms).

[tammy]

David is a model 8. similar to Ripley 8 in Alien: Resurrection who was a clone.

[terry]

When Prometheus approaches the alien solar system, it's mentioned that it's 3.27 x 10^14 (327,000,000,000,000) kilometers from Earth. That's 34.6 light-years, or 10.4 parsecs.